St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-31
REGULAR ARMY NEWS.
Notes of Interest to Those Who
Fight For Uncle Sam,

Capt. F. F. Whitehead, commissary, is de-
tailed on duty in Washington.
The leave of Lieut.. Getty, Twenty second
infantry, is extended ten days.
Forty men left Oh the Northern Pacific yes
terday to go 10 Alaska TO engage in mining.
A leave of absence of one month is gran ed
Maj. Van Buren, Hubbard, surgeon, United
States army.
At his own request Second Lieut. Daniel
L. Tate, First cavalry, is transferred from
Troop NJ to Troop d.
With the approval of the secretary of war,
the sick-leave of Capt. John r.. Morrison,
Tenth cavalry, is extended six months.
First. Lieut.. d. II. Clarke. formerly quarter
master of the Fifteenth infantry, will proceed
to join his new company ut Fort Randall
The secretary of war has directed that
hereafter military prisoners should not be
punished by beiDg forced to carry heavy log
Capt. Cass Durham, Eighteenth infantry.
has been found incapacita;ed for further
service, and his sick leave is extended until
further orders
Yesterday afternoon the Manitoba ran a
special for the members of the Woodland
Park Baptist Sunday school. which picnicked
at Minnetonka.
The extension of leave of absence to First
Lieut.. 5. &. Mills. Twelfth infantry, is ex.
tended eight months, with permission to go
beyond the sea.
John Hornish was fined S25 in the police
CouI9 ycStcrusty llOTlilllS IOf the larceny of q
small sum OF money from a confectionery
dealer on Seventh street.
Col. George Hunt, Tenth cavalry, en- route
to a new post at Fort Apache from Assinni-
boine, and Capt. W. S: Edgerly, Seventh cav
airy, registered at st. Paul headquarters.
'lWillam Burke, who ran away with the cash
box from an Italian fruit vendors stand. on
the corner OF Third and Sibley, Saturday
night, was sent to the Workhouse for NINETY
days.
The commanding officer of Fort Yates will
send Private William Carroll, Company b.
and Sivert S. Skrogstad, Company ii. EIey
enth infantry, to the insane asylum at Wash
| ington.
A board of survey, consisting of Capts. t. F.
Forbes, Fifth infantry, and l.. A. Matile,
| Eleventh infantry, and First Lieut. f. w.
| Mansfield, Eleventh infantry. is appointed
| to meet at Fort Lincoln June /.
The superintendent of recruiting service
| will cause forty recruits to be sent to Fort
Smelling for distribution to the Fifteenth
infantry. They will come under charge of
Capt. Edgerly, Seventh cavalry.
The speakers platform, erected for the
| Decoration day celebration at the capitaI
| grounds, gave way in the center shortly after
| the beginning OF the exercises and precipi-
| tated a number of notables very uneeremoni-
| ously. No one was injured.
The commanding officer of Company f,
| Twenty-tifth infantry, will leave Fort Sisse-
| ton with his command and take a practice
march OF one week. 1t Is arranged that most
| of the organizations in the department will
take such marches during the summer.
| Maj. William S. Forwood, surgeon. and
| Capt. Edward S. Godfrey, Seventh cavalry,
| are detailed as additional members of the
| court-martial to try Capt. Gray, Twenty-f1th
infantry, at Fort Meade. Col Dodge, who
had been on the detail, has met with an acct
| dent which prevents his acting and another
member, Capt. Bean. Fifteenth infantry, is
occupied at Crow Creek with the Indians.
The court of inquiry sitting on the case of
Maj. Bash, the paymaster that was robbed of
| $3.50 at Antelope Springs, has concluded
its investigation and reports that Mai Bash
| did not give such orders to his escort as the
| Importance of the matter required, and that
instructions carried out" 1t reports. how
ever. that no further action BY the military
authorities is considered necessary.